[Python-Dev] CML2 compiler speedup

[Eric]

Fredrik Lundh <fredrik@pythonware.com>:
> tim wrote:
> > If all you got out of crafting a one-grammar parser by hand is a measly
> > factor of 2, there's likely a factor of 10 still untouched (wrt "the best"
> > parser generators for restricted grammars, in C).
> 
> talking about performance, has anyone played with using SRE's
> lastindex/lastgroup stuff with SPARK?
> 
> (is there anything else I could do in SRE to make SPARK run faster?)

Wouldn't help me, I wasn't using the SPARK scanner.  The overhead really
was in the parsing.
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